Phoenicia

Phoenicia in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

fe-nish'-i-a, fe-nish'-anz: 1. The Land 2. The Colonies 3. The People 4. Arts and Manufactures 5. Commerce and Trade 6. Language and Culture 7. Religion 8. History LITERATURE 1. The Land: The term "Phoenicia" is Greek (Phoinike, "land of dates, or palm trees," from phoinix, "the date-palm"). It occurs in the Bible only in Acts (11:19; 15:3; 21:2...

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Phoenicia in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(land of palm trees) a tract of country, of which Tyre and Sidon were the principal cities, to the north of Israel, along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea bounded by that sea on the west, and by the mountain range of Lebanon on the east. The name was not the one by which its native inhabitants called it, but was given to it by the Greeks, f...

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Phoenicia in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Acts 21:2). (See PHENICIA -T0002930.)...

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Phoenicia in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

The Greek name, "the land of the palm." Kenrick supposes the term to express the sunburnt color of the people. The native name was Canaan, "lowland," in contrast to Aram "the highland," Syria. The woman in Matthew 15:22 said to be "of Canaan" in Mark 7:26 is called "Syrophoenician." Phoenice proper was the narrow plain stretching from six mile...

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Phoenicia Scripture - Acts 21:2

Acts 21:2 - And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth....

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